English Language and English Literature BA (Hons)
De Montfort University
Key Information
Campus location
Leicester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
36 months
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
English Language and English Literature BA (Hons)
English Language and English Literature at DMU introduces you to an exciting range of theories and concepts in both subjects, providing a cohesive course in two complementary subjects. As well as developing subject specific knowledge of the English Language and English Literature, the degree aims to develop a range of key transferrable skills including the ability to use language adeptly and appropriately in any potential linguistic context, skills of textual analysis and synthesis, advanced digital literacy, and high-level research, writing and communication skills, which will be of clear benefit in equipping future graduates for a wide range of careers.
Study English Language and English Literature at DMU and join a lively and welcoming academic community. Get involved in the student-led English Literature and English Language societies, go on theatre trips in the UK or travel abroad with DMU Global as part of your course. Our graduates go into a wide range of professions including media, translation, marketing, publishing, teaching, public relations and the civil service.
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Curriculum
First year
Core modules:
- Approaches to Reading and Writing
- Introduction to Drama: Shakespeare
- Evolving Language: An Introduction to Histories of Language
Optional modules:
- Words in Action
- Poetry and Society
- Introduction to the Novel
Second year
Core module:
- Exploration and Innovation: 14th Century to 18th Century Literature
Optional modules:
- Ways of Reading
- Screen and Literary Adaptations of the Classics
- Sex and Death in Romantic Writing, 1780-1830
- Victorian Literature
- Twentieth Century Literature
- Millennial World Fiction
- Text Technologies
- Sociolinguistics
- English Language in UK Schools
- Introducing English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
- Grammar: Analysing Linguistic Structure
- Semantics: Analysing Linguistic Meaning
- Research Methods for Linguists
- Phonetics and Phonology
- Language in Context
- Options in second year must include at least 30 credits in English Language
Third year
Core module:
- English Literature Dissertation OR
- English Language Dissertation
Optional modules:
- Nineteenth-Century American Literature
- Revolutionary Men, Unruly Women: Politics and Gender at the Fin de Siècle,1880-1900
- English in the Workplace
- Modernism and Modernity
- Medieval.com
- Textual Studies Using Computers
- Radical and Contemporary Adaptations
- Writing Adaptations: Theory and Practice
- Watching Early Modern Drama: Spectatorship and Fandom
- The 21st Century Global Franchise: Adapting the Wizarding World
- English Language in the Workplace
- Powerful Language: An Introduction to Rhetoric
- Corpus Linguistics
- Language, Mind and Culture
- Perception, Persuasion, Power
- Language Acquisition
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Career Opportunities
Our English graduates develop strong communication and reasoning skills and the ability to work independently and as part of a group, making them highly employable. We develop our students’ information analysis and presentation skills to produce articulate, adaptable, professional communicators who can operate with ease in any setting and with any group of people.